Configuring the Web Server for Basic Authentication

It is difficult to create a configuration on the Apache web server that provides consistent results by using LDAP SSL for basic authentication. Because this is a tutorial and is expected to be implemented in a testing environment, the following steps explain how to configure Apache to allow for a clear-text password over LDAP and how to configure basic authentication in this environment. The purpose of this section is not to explain how to configure Apache, but to explain how you can enable single sign-on for web resources that require basic authentication.